Hapara, meaning "Dawn" in Maoi, is a company in New Zealand that recognized the need for teachers to better organize and use tools that can deepen personalized learning using Google Apps.
Dashboard is Hapara's flagship product that give teacher's a view of their class with tools to quickly view student learning and share material to the whole class. Dashboard when compared to Google Classroom is very similar - the two overlap each other with many features. With an system LMS, such as Groodle or Blackbaud's Course Tools, Hapara's Dashboard makes Google Classroom not necessary.
Here are some resources to help you get started with Teacher Dashboard:
- Overview video of Hapara (5:59 min) video
- How to use Hapara's Dashboard (2:17) video
- Organizing Tips for Teacher Dashboard
- How to share (Smartshare) documents to students using Dashboard
- Assigning Groups in Dashboard